Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast

Succotash Clips Epi158: Labor Dayin' the Clips Away

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes,
friend. It is I. Marc Hershon, host and handmaiden of
Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast.
Welcome to Epi158, which is another edition of Succotash
Clips, featuring a great, steaming pile of snippets taken from
comedy soundcasts as heard on the internet.

Our
Associate Producer Tyson Saner snipped us
off a trio of clips, I grabbed some, and one enterprising
soundcaster got us a clip from their show by uploading it directly
to us — if you’d like to try that it's as simple as hitting our
direct upload link at http://hightail.com/u/Succotash!

We’re
featuring snip-snips from My Dad Wrote A Porno, Off Book, Quick
Question, The All Seeing Guys, and We’re No
Doctors.

MORE THAN
CLIPS

In
addition to the clips we have a double shot (triple, actually*) of
our Burst O’ Durst segment from friend and political
comedian Will Durst. Plus we have a new
Boozin’ With Bill segment, where our beloved announcer
teaches us how to make a the bitterest drink ever to flow from the
Studio P wetbar.

And the whole show is
brought to you by our friends at Henderson’s Pants. Henderson’s —
if you’ve got the legs, they’re got the pants.

(Heck,
they even have legless pants, so go ahead and drag your torso over
to wherever fine and not-so-fine pants are sold.)

CLIPS

My Dad Wrote A PornoThe first clip out of the
barrel is from a soundcast I just reviewed for Splitsider
and that’s My Dad Wrote A Porno. I had the cast —
Jamie Morton, James Cooper, and
Alice Levine — on Succotash Chats Epi141 and now they are just
concluding reading Rocky Flintstone’s FOURTH book
in his Belinda Blinked series. It’s a consistently funny
formula and a truly horrible series of pornographic
novels.

Off
BookOff Book is a
soundcast that is helping to stretch the borders of what a show can
do. There are a lot of improvised shows out there but this one,
hosted by Jessica McKenna and Zach
Reino, presents a full-blown improvised musical. This
clip, provided by Tyson, is from their debut episode “Shrugging
Destiny” and features the hardest working guest in soundcasting,
Paul F. Tompkins. (Speaking frankly, I’m not a big
fan of being in an improv group that improvises music
because it’s usually pretty bad. Paul F, early in this episode,
even remarks that he’s not that great at it. But these guys
obviously know what they’re doing, so it’s a different ballgame.
Check out my review of this episode from
last July on Splitsider.)

Quick
QuestionOur esteemed Associate
Producer Tyson Saner harvested a clip from a new show by an old
friend. Travis Clark, late of the Tiny Odd
Conversations soundcast, has joined forces with
Jonathan Sadowski, an actor you may be familiar
with if you have watched Young & Hungry on TV. Their
new soundcast is called Quick Question and every episode
starts with, as you may have guessed, a question. They then do
their best to try and answer said query.

The All Seeing
GuysThis clip comes directly
from the source. Greg and Joe,
the fellows at The All Seeing Guys soundcast across the
pond in England, used our direct upload link (http://hightail.com/u/Succotash)
to get us this chunk from one of their recent episodes. In their
cover note they say, “We had a clip played by you a couple of
years back so thought we'd possibly throw a newer clip your
way.” Just a couple of chaps, sitting around and yakking it
up? Soundcasting at it’s purest — good enough for
me!

We're No
DoctorsAnother pretty new-to-you
soundcast is We’re No Doctors, co-hosted by Steve
Agee and Busy Phillips. They’re not just
both comedians and actors, but they’re also self-admitted neurotic
hypochondriacs who decided they should do a show about health and
medicine. In this clip from recent Epi4, they talk with guest
Nicole Sullivan, another comedian/actor who
recounts her brush with death caused by the dread swine flu. (Did
you guys catch Steve Agee in Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume
2? He plays Gef, one of the Ravagers. He’s the guys with the
huge thick glasses. Not a lot of lines but a whole lot of
funny…)

That's it
for now. We're doing a special episode of Succotash Clips
to help raise money for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston but
it will only be available as part of a package of soundcast
episodes being put together by Houston area soundcaster
Justin Corbett, co-host of the Mindfudge soundcast. So our next "regular"
'sode will likely be a Succotash Chats show.